Category Archives: Film

When summer finally sets in, in late June, I want to go to the cinema to see easy action flicks with good looking people. Yes, I’m shallow like that.

Since I do watch stupid things like Fast and Furious and Baywatch, Overdrive was a good way to spend time at the mall on a very warm Saturday. The thing is, I follow regularly trailer channels on youtube and also IMDb, but I only heard about this one at the cinema, when I saw the trailer before Wonder Woman. Not very marketed.

It’s about cars, not really racing, more like a heist, think The Italian Job. And I did not expect everything to happen in the south of France, which always adds extra points.

You have two brothers and a pretty girl. There’s a second girl in there, but she’s only important in the end and we don’t see enough of her. The brothers are played by Scott Eastwood, fresh from his stint on the last Fast & Furious film, and newcomer Freddie Thorp. I haven’t seen Thorp before, he’s kind of an Andrew Garfield type and manages to deliver the funny lines OK. I did enjoy Eastwood here and I’m not proud of that, from the gossip blogs he comes off as a douchebag.

The girl, Ana de Armas, looks a lot like Emilia Clarke and manages to have an even more annoying voice. Pretty big eyes, but lord, when she starts talking…I’m not sure if she was required to use an accent or if that’s her voice, either way it’s baaad.

The other girl is Gaia Weiss, apparently she was on two shows I’m not watching, Vikings and Outlander. Her I’d like to see more of.

This is a goos heist movie with a lot of nice things to look at, but you should ignore most of the dialogue. It has some cool twists though. Enjoy!

It’s been 13 years since the first Underworld movie, and Kate Beckinsale is back at it, looking gorgeous. I don’t think her shiny black suit has changed at all. And, since I’m counting, she’s 43 years old. She looks amazing!

The film is nice, with some epic imagery and nice looking actors and costumes. The story is the same as always: vampires and werewolves are fighting each other, only they don’t call them werewolves, but lycans.

Theo James, the hot guy from the Divergent movies, is the leading man, and it seems like he’s being set-up to take over from Kate. Maybe after another movie. There’s the guy who played Arthur in the Merlin series (Bradley James – I kept wondering where I knew him from), Tyrion’s dad (Charles Dance) and the evil dude from Outlander (Tobias Menzies).

Evil dude is called Marius. Marius! “There’s never been someone like Marius before!” Try saying that with a straight face.

The surprising star here is Lara Pulver, playing an ancient vampire called Semira. She has the most amazing dresses, changes them for every scene (even my husband noticed) and has the Eva Green sexy look.

There’s not much left to say, Underworld is not some masterpiece of a film, but an action flick with hot people. Oscar season is coming, there are a lot of sad movies heading our way, so go see the pretty vampires. They even have snow for the season. Enjoy!